1 MP Backs Biodiesel Tax Break Campaign
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MP backs biodiesel tax break campaign

29 June 2011

Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is backing a project to keep tax breaks for business who produce biodiesel.

Producers transforming cooking oil into biodiesel currently benefit from a 20p differential however that is due to end next April.

The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has actually been consulting with the UK sustainable biodiesel .

Mr George stated "a number of little organizations in Cornwall presently make money from utilized cooking oil".

He included: "In order to have the ability to get this kind of market going it does require just a little bit of lift which is available in the type of tax inescapable."

Biodiesel is a blend of traditional diesel, rapeseed and vegetable oils.

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