Blue America’s favorite “Presumptive Candidate” showed up in town today for another public speech, along with some private bigtime fundraisers.

Kerry was driven to Pier 62 in an SUV (a Chevy Suburban, to be precise), to talk about our nation’s scary dependence on fossil fuels.

He told a drenched midmorning audience how, if elected, he’d launch a serious crash program for more renewable energy sources, more hybrid vehicles, and “transparency” in energy markets.

Not the most electrifying of topics (pun intended, natch); but he gave it his rhetorical all.

Folks who had invites for the inner seating area had to abandon their umbrellas outside the fences, leaving this forlorn scene.