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Show natural resources for the future. With your help, perhaps in the next few years, we can all be driving Datsuns fueled by Arab oil and keeping warm dressed in Australian woolens! The vote by the House Thursday against decontrolling decon-trolling gas is predictable in many ways. It shows why all major polls reveal that the people' of this nation have little confidence confid-ence in Washington bureaucracy and even less in Congress. To say the least, Con gress is consistent. It has a perfect record of failing to solve a single major problem prob-lem facing this nation in the past 12 years. It has killed the railroad industry, indus-try, is overregulating the airlines out of existence, completely lost control of the welfare program, loused up the once-safe social security program, and is maintaining a perfect per-fect program of not producing pro-ducing one single extra barrel of oil or cubic foot of gas in face of ;m energy crisis. We hope Congress slaps price controls on your precious Michigan automotive auto-motive industry immediately immedi-ately and personally, sir. next winter, we hope you freeze your you-know-what off! llW,lW.itj.jj..'tP-lj"l'V'J'.'rl'W'fl Texas, we should have known that common sense and Congress would continue conti-nue into infinity as strangers. stran-gers. Since you were quoted following the defeat, 206 to 201, for decontrol as saying say-ing "that the consumer had been saved from a monstrous rip-off by the oil companies", we know that you have the interests of the consumer at heart. Consequently, we are assuming that you can be counted upon to work for the consumers of this nation when we seek to place price controls upon the automotive industry of your stale. We have asked Texas congressmen to introduce bills immediately in the House to place price controls con-trols upon all cars manufactured manu-factured in the United States. Following your same logic used against the oil companies, this will prevent giant "rip-offs" of the consumer by Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler companies. We are convinced that if price controls can be placed upon the automotive automo-tive industry, especially in Detroit, that within a few years we can accomplish the same purpose you outline for the oil industry. You hope to break up the big major oil companies. They are too vertically integrated for the good of the consumer. The same argument can be used for the big three of the automotive auto-motive industry. They are too big and loo vertically integrated. You might like to know that in the Fortune directory direc-tory of the top 500 industrial indus-trial corporations in this nation, Ford and General Motors rank 2nd and 3rd. By supporting the bills to maintain price controls on automobiles, you will enable the consumer to buy more autos more often at a cheaper price as is the case with natural gas. That we shall ruin both the automotive industry as well as. the oif-and -gas industry should tickle you pink '' If by your voting record, you don't mind foreign crude oil bring imported into this country from the Middle East, we know that you and your constituents in Michigan will not mind increasing the auto im-. ports from Germany, Japan and England. After all, we'll be saving our We wish there were just something left these days that could honestly be called unmentionable. unmention-able. Rep. John Dingell, House Office Bldg. Washington, D. C. Congressman Dingell: Congratulations are in order to you for successfully success-fully leading the fight to stop decontrol of gas prices in the House Thursday. Thurs-day. Here in Texas, we thought perhaps for the first time in 20 years, that common sense would prevail pre-vail and the controls of natural gas would be lifted. Even though the fight to decontrol was ably led by Rep. Bob Krueger of |