Has anyone noticed that Paris Hilton’s satirical “energy policy” is virtually identical to Barack Obama’s actual plan? In her viral video spoof, she says,

Okay, so here’s my energy policy. Barack wants to focus on new technologies to cut foreign oil dependency and McCain wants off shore drilling. Well, why don’t we do a hybrid of both candidates’ ideas. We can do limited off shore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. That way the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in, which will create new jobs and energy independence.

In the time it took Paris to get that video out, Obama had already changed his policy–to hers. Here’s what the Democratic nominee had to say last Friday:

My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage — I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done.

Obama added that the compromise, “would repeal tax breaks for oil companies so that we can invest billions in fuel-efficient cars, help our automakers re-tool, and make a genuine commitment to renewable sources of energy like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of clean, affordable biofuels.”

She calls the plan a “hybrid;” he calls it a “compromise.” But in any event, Obama can’t be happy that his new energy policy is hard to tell apart from the fake one offered up by tabloid socialite. I think this celebrity ad thing has come full circle