The email was not from Nolans and the amount of CO2 emitted was wrong. Therefore you are correct, it was a hoax.
But the article you linked to did not deny anything else. Mr Nolan says:
Nolan’s says the company is concerned it will not be able to pass on the carbon tax to its customers when it is applied to fuel used by the trucking industry.
The government has given the trucking industry a two-year exemption from the tax on fuel. The industry will pay an extra 6.85 cents per litre in the form of a higher fuel excise from July 1, 2014.
“The tax would also ignore the enormous investment we have made to meet the new emissions standards that have come in since the 1990s,” Nolan says.
The tax, which will begin at $23 per tonne, will apply to the top 500 emitters in Australia, which includes Nolan’s, from July 1 this year.
Instead of demanding apologies, why not address the points raised?
