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Study: RFS estimated to cost chain restaurants billions

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WASHINGTON — A new report on the impact of federal ethanol policies, specifically the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), estimates that the RFS mandate could cost chain restaurants billions of dollars.

The National Council of Chain Restaurants commissioned PwC US to research, analyze and estimate the potential cost and economic impact of the federal RFS mandate and to study the impact of federal ethanol policies on the chain restaurant industry. PwC reviewed numerous public and private reports and combined these findings with chain restaurant survey data to calculate the overall cost of the RFS mandate to. . .

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