11498 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 20, 1977 lawfully admitted to the United States for H.R. 1429. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Di­ H.R. 1436. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Re­ lieves a certain individual of all liability to permanent residence. rects the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a H.R. 1444. January 4. 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ sum to a certain individual in full settlement the United States previously imposed for postage on certain mailings. vides that a certain individual shall be con­ of such individual's claims against the sidered lawfully admitted to the United United States. H.R. 1437. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Au­ thorizes classification of a certain individual States for permanent residence. H.R. 1430. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Au­ as a child for purposes of the Immigration H.R. 1445. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ thorizes classification of certain individuals and Nationality Act. vides that a certain individual be held and as children for purposes of the Immigration H.R. 1438. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Di­ considered to have been promoted to cap­ and Nationality Act. rects the Secretary of the Treasury to pay tain in the Regular Navy, and to have been H.R. 1431. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Di­ a specified sum to a certain il.dividual in retired in that grade. rects the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a full settlement of such individuals claims H.R. 1446. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ sum to a certain individual in full settle­ against the United States. vides that a certain individual is condition­ ment of such individual's claims against the H.R. 1439. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Di­ ally admitted to the United States for per­ United States. rects the Secretary of the Treasury to en­ manent residence. H.R. 1432. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ tertain the claims of a certain individual H.R. 1447. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ vides that a certain individual be condi­ for replacement, by reason of nonreceipt, vides that a certain husband and wife may tionally admitted to the United States for of certain Treasury checks. file a claim for credit or refund of any over­ payment of Federal income taxes paid for permanent residence. H.R. 1440. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ H.R. 1433. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Con­ 1965 and 1966. vides that certain individuals be classified H.R. 1448. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ sents to the employment of a certain re­ as children under the Immigration and Na­ tired U.S. Army Officer by a certain corpora­ vides that a certain sum will be paid to a tionality Act. particular construction company in full set­ tion owned by the Indonesian Government, H.R. 1441. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. tlement of all claims against the United in accordance with the Constitution. Waives the six-year time limit for filing States arising out of a certain construction H.R. 1434. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. De­ claims with regard to the Correction of contract. clares a certain individual lawfully admitted Military Records for a certain individual. H.R. 1449. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ to the United States for permanent resi­ H.R. 1442. January 4, 1977. Judiciary Di­ vides that a certain individual be considered dence, under the Immigration and National­ rects the payment of a claim by a member lawfully admitted to the United States for ity Act. of the United States Air Force for house­ permanent residence. H.R. 1435. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ hold effects destroyed by fire while being H.R. 1450. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ vides that a certain company is relieved of transported at Government expense. vides that a certain individual be considered liability for a certain sum to the United H.R. 1443. January 4, 1977. Judiciary. Pro­ lawfully admitted to the United States for States. vides that a certain individual shall be held permanent residence. E.XTENSIONS OF REMARKS IT NEED NOT HAPPEN HERE THE NIGHTMARE LIFE WITHOUT FUEL easy a target) • policemen are back on their (Americans are so used to limitless energy beats. More important, the streets are full. supplies that they can hardly imagine what Legs are king in the cities of 1997, and peo­ life might be like when the fuel really starts ple walk everywhere far into the night. Even HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL the parks are full, and there is mutual pro­ OF NEW YORK to run out. So Time asked Science Writer Isaac Asimov for his vision of an energy­ tection in crowds. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES poor society that might exist at the end of If the weather isn't too cold, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the Wednesday, April 20, 1977 the 20th century. The following portt·ait, Asimov noted, "need not prove to be ac­ only air conditioning they get. And at least Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, this eve­ curate. It is a picture of the worst, of waste the street lights still burn. Indoors, elec­ ning President Carter will present his continuing, of oil running out, of nothing tricity is scarce, and few people can afford energy policy before a joint session of in its place, of world population continuing to keep lights burning after supper. Congress. The formulation of a national to rise. But then, that could happen, couldn't As for the winter-well, it is inconvenient it?") to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel energy policy is of utmost importance to is allowed hoarded for the dawn; but sweat­ all Americans. We have built a society So it's 1997, and it's raining. and you'll have to walk to work again. The subways ers are popular indoor wear and showers are based upon a cheap inexhaustible sup­ are crowded, and any given train breaks down not an everyday luxury. Lukewarm sponge ply of energy and now we must redesign one morning out of five. The buses are gone, baths will do, and if the air is not always our society and technology to eliminate and on a day like today the bicycles slosh very fragrant in the human vicinity, the waste and inefficiency. If we do not and slide. Besides, you have only a mile automobile fumes are gone. change our patterns of conspicuous con­ and a half to go, and you have boots, rain­ There is some consolation in the city that coat and rain hat. And it's not a very cold it is worse in the suburbs. The suburbs were sumption of energy, we will have to pay born with the auto, lived with the auto, d~arly. In the short run, our economy rain, so why not? Lucky you have a job in demolition too. and are dying with the auto. One way out WI~l falter due to ever-increasing energy It's steady work. Slow and dirty, but steady. for the suburbanities is to form associations prices, and we will be precipitously vul­ The fading structures of a decaying city are that assign turns to the procurement and nerable to an oil embargo, thus severely the great mineral mines and hardware shops distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from handicapping our freedom of action in of the nation. Break them down and re-use house to house along the posh suburban foreign affairs. In the long run, we face the parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. a total breakdown of our society as we transport to give us energy in the amounts It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too till the roads are open. There is not much in know it, a return to a preindustrial so­ dangerous, the technical breakthrough to­ the way of refrigeration except for the snow­ ciety, and an unstable world order. ward nuclear fusion that we hoped for never banks, and then the dogs must be fought off. These consequences need not be suf­ took place, and solar batteries are too ex­ What energy is left cannot be directed into fered if we act quickly and prudently to pensive to main on the earth's surface in personal comfort. The nation must survive reduce our consumption through a vigor­ sufficient quantity. until new energy sources are found, so it is Anyone older than ten can remember auto­ the railroads and subways that are receiv­ ous campaign of energy conservation in mobiles. They dwindled. At first the price ing major attention. The railroads must order to buy us the time needed to de­ of gasoline climbed-way up. Finally only move the coal that is the immediate hope, velop environmentally sound alternative the well-to-do drove, and that was too clear and the subways can best move the people. sources of energy. an indication that they were filthy rich, so And then. of course, energy must be con­ served for agriculture. The great car factories The following is an essay from the any automobile that dared show itself on a city street was overturned and burned. Ra­ make trucks and farm machinery almost ex­ April 25 issue of Time magazine by the tioning was introduced to "equalize sacri­ clusively. We can huddle together when noted science writer Isaac Asimov. Mr. fice," but every three months the ration was there is a lack of warmth, fan ourselves Asimov paints a grim picture of the reduced. The cars just vanished and became should there be no cooling breezes, sleep or part of the metal resource.