Master Chef judge Joe Bastianich provided dinner from his restaurant Eataly for the Sun Coast Resources fuel response team in New York city.

His generosity was greatly appreciated and the food was divine.   Thank you Joe! Sun Coast is a fan!

Here is a clip of the experience: http://youtu.be/mtItzy1KuZ0

For the full report by CNN ireporter Chris Morrow view here:  http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-879857

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Veterans Day celebrated and region still struggles

The Veterans Day National Ceremony is held each year on November 11th at Arlington National Cemetery. The ceremony commences precisely at 11:00 a.m. with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and continues inside the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by veterans’ organizations and remarks from dignitaries. The ceremony is intended to honor and thank all who served in the United States Armed Forces.

New York City had its first major event since cancelling its annual marathon as thousands of victims of Superstorm Sandy continued to struggle with power outages, gasoline shortages and freezing weather conditions.

Sunday’s annual Veterans Day Parade in Manhattan in New York attracted crowds of over 600,000 people in a city still struggling to clean up after one of the worst natural disasters in the region’s history.

There were still over a quarter of a million customers without power nearly two weeks after the storm. As of Saturday, 66,000 of those were on Long Island, where residents hit hard by the storm protested outside the headquarters of the Long Island Power Authority in Hicksville.

New Yorkers also faced their second day of gasoline rationing under a system in which cars with odd- and even-numbered license plates can fill up only on alternate days.

Electric utilities have drawn withering criticism for their failure to quickly restore power throughout the region. For many, no electricity means no heat, hot water or hot meals. People are picketing today in Long Island as they have been without power for two weeks now.

Thousands were in temporary shelters, and in New Jersey a tent city on the edge of Monmouth Park racetrack was home to hundreds. Authorities in the region said they did not have access to enough alternative housing or hotel rooms for all those who have been displaced.

Sandy smashed into the East Coast on Oct. 29, killing at least 120 people and causing an estimated $50 billion in damages and economic losses. It destroyed homes along the New Jersey Shore and around New York City, cut off electricity for millions of people and knocked out much of the public transportation system.

Outside LIPA headquarters in Hicksville, two 13-year-old girls held white cardboard signs decrying LIPA’s slow response. One, in pink magic marker, read: “LIPA Stinks!” The other read: “Lame, Inept, Pitiful, Awful.”

Still today, Rockaway, a coastal area of New York City devastated by the storm surge, more than 500 people lined up with empty fuel cans..

More than a quarter of the gas stations in the New York metropolitan area did not have fuel available for sale on Friday, the same number as on Thursday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said.

At the Inwood refinery in southern Queens, a line of more than a dozen tanker trucks stretched from the refinery entrance. Some drivers slept while they waited.

Seven tanker drivers, most of whom serve independent gas stations throughout Long Island and New York City, said the average wait in recent days to fill up their tankers was about 3 hours, and then another 90 minutes once they reached the pumps.

But there were signs fuel lines were starting to ease up. There were no gasoline lines reported at most gas stations in New Jersey as well in some places in Long Island.

In New York’s Broad Channel community, there was a boat in the middle of a road with a sign that read: “Broad Channel – the forgotten town.”

There were 289,239 customers without power on Saturday in the states struck by Sandy, a drop of 144,901 from Friday, the U.S. Energy Department said. At the peak 8.5 million were without power.

Sun Coast Resources still has trailers, bobtails, tanks and fuel across New York and New Jersey and will be fueling generators and businesses for weeks to come.

Thank you to all who have served and do serve our great country on this Veteran’s Day and everyday!

Sun Coast Resources, Inc. is in action across the Northeast this week with fuel trucks as far West as West Virginia and to the North in New York and down through Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Washington D.C..

About two thirds of the East Coast’s refining capacity of 1.2 mill bpd out of 11 refineries was off line due to either voluntary shutdowns or from operating at reduced rates.  There are no refinery damage assessments at this time.  This storm was 1,100 miles across.  There are currently 8 million homes without power and that number could rise to 10 million. There were record breaking waves, record breaking storm surges.  Lower Manhattan has a half dozen subway tunnels flooded and the transportation authority there says it may take up to 4 days to get the water out of the tunnels with no estimate on how long it will take until the trains actually run.  The high water mark in lower Manhattan was 13.46 feet, passing the previous high of 10.02 feet in 1960.  The NY Stock exchange remains closed for a second day along New York Stock Exchange was to be closed again — the first time it’s been closed for two consecutive days due to weather since 1888, when a blizzard struck the city.  Tomorrow is the last trading day for the November gasoline and heating oil as well as the last trading day in the stock markets and both commodity traders and stock traders are anxious for their exchanges to re-open, but most NY City bridges and tunnels are closed and even if the exchanges are open it will remain very difficult if not dangerous for very many traders to make it to work.

For emergency fuel in the areas effected by Sandy, be sure to call 800-677-FUEL (3835) extension *567 today!