1 MP Backs Biodiesel Tax Break Campaign
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MP backs break project

29 June 2011

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

Producers transforming cooking oil into biodiesel presently gain from a 20p differential but that is because of end next April.

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

Mr George stated "a number of little businesses in Cornwall currently earn money from utilized cooking oil".

He added: "In order to be able to get this type of market going it does require just a bit of lift which is available in the kind of tax foregone."

Biodiesel is a mix of standard diesel, rapeseed and vegetable oils.

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