1977年9月1日,洛佩斯·波蒂略总统在他的第一个国情咨文中宣布:“石油已成为我国经济独立的最强大支柱和弥补我们严重不足的因素。”尽管在这种场合要措词恰当,但不能否认,差不多整个二十世纪,在这个国家生活中占主要地位的石油工业,从来没有象今天或今后一、二十年内所具有的决定国家命运的重要性。最近的发现表明,石油蕴藏量最终可能相 On 1 September 1977, in his first State of the Union address, President López Portillo declared: “Oil has become the strongest pillar of our economic independence and the factor that makes up for our grave inadequacy.” Although in this It should be appropriately worded, but it can not be denied that the petroleum industry, which occupies a major position in this country’s life for almost the entire twentieth century, has never had the same importance as determining the fate of the country as it has done today or in the next one to two decades. Recent findings indicate that oil reserves may ultimately be in phase