[DougWebb]

Many non-affluent companies have skipped over the many stages the US went through in creating electrical and telecommunications infrastructure. For the latter they've jumped right to cellular, which has kept a LOT of copper and rubber from being wasted and littered across the landscape.

We've developed technologies and equipment for extracting natural resources without the pollution we used to create; developing countries should skip ahead and make use of those same technologies. They're not exactly national secrets; I'd bet that our manufacturers who produce that equipment would be happy to fill overseas orders, and I doubt the US government would have a problem with it.