Yrigoyen also promoted energy independence for the rapidly growing country, obtaining Congressional support for the establishment of the YPF state oil concern, and appointing as its first director General Enrique Mosconi, the most prominent advocate for industrialization in the Argentine military at the time.
Yrigoyen je također promovirao energetsku neovisnost za brzo rastuću zemlje, dobivanjem podrške Kongresa za osnivanje naftnog koncerna YPF u državnom vlasništvu, i imenovanjem kao prvog direktora general Enriquea Mosconija, najistaknutijeg zagovornik industrijalizacije u argentinskoj vojsci u to vrijeme.