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 project to keep tax breaks for business who .

Producers transforming cooking oil into biodiesel presently 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 actually been meeting the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.

Mr George said "a variety of small companies in Cornwall presently earn money from utilized cooking oil".

He included: "In order to be able to get this type of market going it does require just a bit of lift which comes in the type of tax inevitable."

Biodiesel is a blend of conventional diesel, rapeseed and vegetable oils.

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