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

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 currently 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 actually been meeting the UK sustainable biodiesel .

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

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

Biodiesel is a blend of standard diesel, rapeseed and veggie oils.

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