MP backs break campaign

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 gain from a 20p differential however 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 stated "a variety of small companies in Cornwall currently generate income from used cooking oil".

He added: "In order to have the ability to get this sort of market going it does require simply a bit of lift which can be found in the kind of tax foregone."

Biodiesel is a mix of traditional diesel, rapeseed and vegetable oils.

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