You had me until you got to Seneca 'ashamed'.  

A private business has no duty to save a politician or a group of them from their own stupidity.

And if Seneca risked its capital to build the magic electricity producing burner and they hired better experts than the politicians, that's just what happens sometimes when governments start trying to act like businesses without having the knowledge or the expertise. 

We have seen Portland and the State of Oregon try numerous times try to make computer decisions like a business and blow millions and most recently hundreds of millions of dollars because of gross ignorance.   

This is just another of those situations.