Having had John McCain’s campaign use her in one of their ads, Paris Hilton is hitting back with her own political ad. Claiming that since the “white haired dude” mentioned her in his ad, she must also be running for president, Paris puts forth her own energy policy.

Not really anything new in what she proposes though, and she’s not backing either of the mainstream candidates. Instead, she’s proposing a “hybrid” approach with limited offshore drilling, and development of alternative fuel solutions. Others have indeed suggested the same thing.

The Vertography Plan
The Vertography Plan though sees this as a compromise. The oil companies have already got drilling rights to 80% of the known remaining deposits in the US, but are doing nothing with most of those rights. The only way they are going to invest in the equipment, and spend the 10 years it would take, to drill for that oil is if the price remains high enough to pay for it. And at current consum