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.

Producers converting cooking oil into biodiesel presently take advantage of a 20p differential but 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 alliance.

Mr George said "a number of little organizations in Cornwall presently make cash from used cooking oil".

He added: "In order to be able to get this type of industry going it does require simply a little bit of lift which is available in the kind of tax inevitable."

Biodiesel is a blend of traditional diesel, rapeseed and .

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