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 companies who produce biodiesel.

Producers transforming cooking oil into biodiesel presently 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 biodiesel alliance.

Mr George stated "a number of small companies in Cornwall currently make cash from used cooking oil".

He added: "In order to have the ability to get this type of market going it does require just a bit of lift which is available in the type of tax inescapable."

Biodiesel is a blend of conventional diesel, rapeseed and .

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