John McCain may have picked on the wrong person when he used Paris Hilton in an advert attacking Barack Obama.

Hilton, a famous socialite and part time movie star, has responded with surprisingly coherent policy statement of her own.

Barack wants to focus on new technologies to cut foreign oil dependency and McCain wants offshore drilling. Well why don’t we do a hybrid of both candidates ideas. We can do limited offshore drilling, with strict environmental oversight, while using tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. That way the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in which would then create new jobs and energy independences.

Energy crisis solved. I’ll see you at the debates bitches.

Over on The New Republic Dayo Olopade says:

In reality, experts–and McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin–repeatedly acknowledge that it would take 5-10 years for any tangible effects of offshore drilling to take hold; new oil production would only amount to 1 percent (200,000 barrels) of projected US demand when it does become available; and if new oil in 2015 or so could lower the price of gasoline, it would only do so by a few cents.

So there’s no “carrying” over anything until technologies “kick in.” Many clean energy technologies are extant, but have limited reach because demand for dirty enery remains so high. And in fact, the “tiding over” could be better accomplished by releasing oil from the US strategic petroleum reserve–not something you want to be doing regularly, but which President Bush did in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and for which Obama and other Democrats have begun advocating.