Perhaps visionary businessmen/inventors who start out small and in one area so to avoid a massive business failure. Then when see their foresight has paid off with their small business they go to Fuel utility companies and secure a partnership (or just use their own revenues and keep it all to themselves after securing a patent) to become rich.
It would take decades, yes. But the financial benefits would pay for it all the way through building and consolidating it.
It would take decades, yes. But the financial benefits would pay for it all the way through building and consolidating it.