MP backs biodiesel tax break campaign

29 June 2011

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

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

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

Mr George said a variety of small companies in Cornwall presently earn money from utilized cooking oil.

He added: In order to be able to get this sort of industry going it does need simply a bit of lift which can be found in the kind of tax inevitable.

Biodiesel is a blend of traditional diesel, rapeseed and .

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