U.S. Senate candidate and former Virginia Gov. George Allen presented a sharply critical view of President Barack Obama’s energy policies and his push to invest more clean-energy technology, instead emphasizing the benefits of the country’s resources at home in an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner this week – interesting timing, notes the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

That’s because Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s administration this week was talking about how offshore wind farms, though still in the early stages of development, are a significant part of his energy policy, reported Virginia Statehouse News.