上世纪70年代,在“石油武器”这一概念提出二十多年之后,石油开始真正变成可以制衡世界的力量。1971年,美国宣布其石油富余生产能力告罄,两次世界大战中西方大国的“战时安全储备”不复存在。两年之后,1973年4月,取消进口配额制的美国有如饥饿的巨兽,一头杀入世界石油市场,原油日进口量由1970年的320万桶飙升到当年的620万桶。世界的秩序由此被改写,中东不再是从前 More than two decades after the concept of “oil and gas” was introduced in the 1970s, the oil began to truly become a force that could balance the world. In 1971, when the United States announced that its oil-rich productive capacity was exhausted, the “wartime security reserve” of the western powers in both world wars ceased to exist. Two years later, in April 1973, the United States, with its import quota system abolished, hungry as a behemoth into the world oil market. Its crude oil import soared from 3.2 million barrels in 1970 to 6.2 million barrels a day. The order of the world was thus rewritten, and the Middle East was no longer the past