1832年,英国首相帕麦斯顿在英国上院公然表示:“大英帝国维护殖民体系的目标之一,就是要保证我们能从世界各地源源不断地输入我们所需要的资源,并防止这些资源被对我们有敌意的国家所控制。迄今为止,我们一直能做到这一点,这是大英帝国的骄傲。”这段话掷地有声,能源外交的萌芽早在那时 In 1832, the British Prime Minister Palmerston said in openly in the British House of Lords: “One of the goals of the British Empire in preserving the colonial system is to ensure that we can continuously input the resources we need from all over the world and prevent them from being It is the pride of the British Empire that we have been able to do so to our country hostile to us for so long. ”The remark went so far as to say that the germ of energy diplomacy existed back then