1 MP Backs Biodiesel Tax Break Campaign
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MP backs break campaign

29 June 2011

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

Producers converting cooking oil into biodiesel presently take advantage of 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 meeting the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.

Mr George said "a variety of small companies in Cornwall currently make money from used cooking oil".

He included: "In order to be able to get this sort of industry going it does need just a little bit of lift which is available in the type of tax inescapable."

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

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