True, free enterprise Conservatism in Iowa is tenuous at best. Even those cloaked in the GOP banner come from a long line of "progressive populists" from the upper midwest (such as Bob La Follette) and the grange movement.
Ag welfare abounds in Iowa and its neighboring states.
But the jobs are green...until subsidies die down:
“To turn wood chips into ethanol fuel, George W. Bush’s Department of Energy in February 2007 announced a $76 million grant to Range Fuels for a cutting-edge refinery. A few months later, the refinery opened in the piney woods of Treutlen County, Ga., as the taxpayers of Georgia piled on another $6 million. In 2008, the ethanol plant was the first beneficiary of the Biorefinery Assistance Program, pocketing a loan for $80 million guaranteed by the U.S. taxpayers.
Last month, the refinery closed down, having failed to squeeze even a drop of ethanol out of its pine chips.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/02/green-energy-plant-sucks-subsidies-then-goes-bust