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BIODIESEL * Norway - To scrap bio-diesel exemption
Oslo,Norway -HGV UK -December 16, 2009: -- Norway is planning to scrap a tax exemption for bio-diesel, joining a growing number of countries taking the view that users of bi-fuels should pay for them instead of taxpayers, pane European lobby group, Transport & Environment has reported... The Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, supports removing the exemption, which attracted opposition from MPs and some NGOs in Norway. He said bio-fuels have some impact, and motorists using public roads should contribute to their maintenance... The legislation that removes the exemption for tax breaks is imposing a bio-fuels sales obligation that requires 2.5 per cent of all transport fuels to be from biomass in 2009 through blended fuels... These blended fuels will still be completely exempted from the country’s carbon dioxide tax, even though doubts remain over bio-diesel’s CO2 impacts compared with oil-based fuels, according to T&E... (Photo from alternative-energy: biofuel conversion)
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