MP backs biodiesel tax break campaign
29 June 2011
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is backing a campaign to keep tax breaks for business who produce biodiesel.
converting cooking oil into biodiesel currently gain from a 20p differential but that is due to end next April.
The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has been satisfying with the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.
Mr George said "a variety of little businesses in Cornwall presently make money from utilized cooking oil".
He included: "In order to have the ability to get this sort of industry going it does need simply a little bit of lift which is available in the kind of tax foregone."
Biodiesel is a blend of standard diesel, rapeseed and veggie oils.
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