John Kerry is the electric car that nobody wants to buy.

He is to climate change what the EV is to transportation — a grand, unfulfilled promise full of sound and fury —and a private jet — but not signifying very much.

As President Joe Biden’s first climate czar, Kerry set out in 2021, when Biden appointed him, to control the climate for an administration that cannot even control the border.

That was when Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline and threw 10,000 U.S. welders and pipefitters out of work, the same workers that Kerry said could find jobs making solar panels.

Kerry did not mention that they would have to go to China for the jobs. That’s where the solar panels, which flood the U.S. market, were made, and still are.

It is interesting to note that Kerry, former secretary of state, U.S. senator and 2004 presidential candidate, is leaving his elevated climate czar post while the giant Hertz Rental Car Company just announced that is selling 20,000 EVs at a cut rate because nobody wants to rent them.

These are like the EVs one sees languishing in the overstocked parking lots of car dealers across the country who also can’t get any takers.

The climate-conscious Kerry, 80, could probably buy one on the cheap from Hertz to use as he travels the country campaigning for his friend Joe Biden, 81, which he plans to do.

Or, more likely, he could travel about the country campaigning for Biden by private jet which he has been so fond of doing in the past.

You may recall that Hertz made big news in 2022 when it announced it was buying 175,000 electric vehicles from General Motors to diversify its fleet and help cut down on emissions.

Well, it is now planning to use the money from the EVs it is dumping to buy gasoline-powered cars.

And Hertz will not be the only car rental company ditching EVs.

There are many reasons why the public has generally rejected EVs. They range from the high cost and lack of charging stations to the sad fact that the elements that go into the Chinese made batteries come from mines in Africa worked by children.

Americans are not stupid. They can witness Kerry and all the other so-called world and business leaders, and attendant fakers, fly into Davos on their private fossil fuel-burning jets to the World Economic Forum where they live high and talk about climate change.

Americans reject hypocritical politicians telling them they must go small while they go big, like being driven around in taxpayer-funded, high powered gas guzzling Chevrolet Suburbans while they mandate that the average Joe Schmo drive a dinky EV.

I am reminded of what F. Scott Fitzgerald said about rich people: “You know, the rich are different from you and I.”  To which Ernest Hemingway replied, “Yes, they have more money.”

Politicians in this era are different than you and I. They are different not just because they have more money, or are smarter.

They are different because they have more power and can use it over you and abuse it when doing so.

It was the “smart” and powerful politicians like Lyndon Johnson who got us into the nightmare of Vietnam that saw some 58,000 young men die in a war that should never have been fought.

Average Americans mistakenly think that politicians, because they hold high office, are wise and know what they are talking about.

I just think back a decade ago when the wise President Barack Obama and would-be Presidents Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, both secretaries of state, repeatedly predicted that Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, who used poison gas on his own people to quell a revolt, would soon be deposed.

“His days are numbered, he will be gone,” they all said.

Ten years later Assad is still there. It is Obama, Clinton and Kerry who are gone. Long gone.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist