2 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 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 consulting with the UK sustainable biodiesel .

Mr George said "a number of small services in Cornwall currently generate income from utilized cooking oil".

He included: "In order to have the ability to get this kind of market going it does need simply a little 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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