MP backs biodiesel tax break campaign
29 June 2011
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is backing a project to keep tax breaks for companies who produce biodiesel.
Producers transforming cooking oil into biodiesel currently take advantage of a 20p however that is because of end next April.
The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has been consulting with the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.
Mr George stated "a variety of small companies in Cornwall presently make money from utilized cooking oil".
He added: "In order to have the ability to get this type of industry going it does require just a bit of lift which is available in the kind of tax inevitable."
Biodiesel is a mix of standard diesel, rapeseed and vegetable oils.
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