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 produce biodiesel.
Producers converting 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 said "a number of small companies in Cornwall presently earn money from utilized cooking oil".
He included: "In order to be able to get this sort of industry going it does require just a bit of lift which is available in the type of tax inescapable."
Biodiesel is a mix of traditional diesel, rapeseed and veggie oils.
Fuel from to power automobiles
13 May 2011
Old chip fat powers Place ferry
15 June 2010
St Ives Liberal Democrats
1
MP Backs Biodiesel Tax Break Campaign
gemmavallery64 edited this page 2025-01-11 10:07:39 +01:00