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 campaign to keep tax breaks for business who produce biodiesel.

Producers converting cooking oil into biodiesel currently benefit 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 .

Mr George said "a variety of little organizations 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 little bit of lift which is available in the form of tax inescapable."

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

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