This is not the complete picture. Businesses like Solyndra were part of this cabal too. Many of these businesses were funded by venture capitalists like Kleiner Perkins (Al Gore is a partner) whose aim was to feed off the system. This is what is called crony capitalism. There is no need to pretend that businesses do not join the cabal. We should oppose businesses that hate the free-market and prefer crony capitalism. Merely being businesses do not make them virtuous.
I partially agree with you — corporations and VCs ARE culpable here. But they would have pursued none of this if it weren’t for the gross market distortions caused by government spending our tax money with wild abandon and crooked academics. Government and the academy set the table. The corporations and VCs simply sat down for the prepared feast.
I'm appalled at business whose business plan consists solely of manipulating government ignorance, or using government as a club to beat their competitors instead of out-competing them. So I mostly agree with your post with two slight exceptions.
First, we normally want to hold government to a higher standard because they exist off tax dollars as opposed to making their money honestly off willing customers like a business. That distinction obviously doesn't apply in this case, but the instinct is ingrained.
Second, the tone of the statement in the article is that it's corporations that are primarily to blame rather than the only entity that has the ability to fiddle with the tax code, the government. It's as if, if you told the author the government was intimately involved in and bore a large share of the responsibility for this thing he doesn't like, he wouldn't believe you.