ABSTRACT
Foreign policy objectives included cooperation in the formulation of a world energy plan consistent with the new international economic order. This chapter provides an account of the way in which these objectives and guidelines have changed as well as to examine the treatment of the oil question in particular government plans and programs: the Global Development Plan, Energy Program, and, to a more limited extent, the National Plan for Industrial Development. The energy policy chapter of the Global Plan simply repeats what had already been established as axiom, that Mexico should "use oil to bring about economic and social development by assigning the earnings generated by it to our development priorities." The most important indirect instrument is prices which, moreover, play a key role in all energy plans. The Energy Program predicts that the rationalization of primary energy consumption will have important effects and that by 1990, it provide a daily savings of almost a million barrels of crude oil.
