11 May

All of those who love the sound of a V8, like Jeremy, always forget that the sound they love is not the engine. It’s the exhaust, a metal tube. Invented to get rid of the truly horrible sound of an engine, to ‘muffle’ it. Thus, ‘muffler’. Exhaust gases *are* an engine farting. Take the trumpet away when Louis Armstrong was playing, and what did you hear? Him blowing raspberries. If you’ve never heard an engine without a muffler, google it. Engines sound hideous, just a continuous series of explosions. Bizarrely, that sound is loved because it became associated with ‘grunt’, with power. When actually it’s the exact opposite. That noise is the wasted energy that the engine can’t use to drive the wheels. 70% of every drop of fuel you put in a petrol or diesel goes straight out the exhaust, unused. THAT’s the sound you hear, that unburnt fuel as exhaust gases, blowing the ‘trumpet’ of the muffler. EVs are silent because all that energy goes straight to the wheels, which is why *they* have such phenomenal grunt. It’s seriously the most stupid last-gasp thing to hold onto to deny you’re getting old and don’t want to change, as many do at Jeremy’s age. That’s what this is actually about. Also the people who claim to love this sound only love it if it’s just them making it. Jeremy moved to the countryside because everybody hates the sound of millions of vehicles making the same noise, in the cities. It’s the passion of a spoiled child, who only thinks of itself.