A climate change researcher is welcoming the "untimely demise" of a controversial global warming bill in the Senate. 

Senate Democrats have pulled the Lieberman-Warner climate bill from consideration after failing to garner the 60 votes needed to end a Republican filibuster of the measure.  The measure would force power plants, refineries and factories to cut carbon dioxide emissions 71 percent by the year 2050.
Marc Morano, a spokesman for Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) -- the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says the bill was dead on arrival.

He says the bill arrived right after the Memorial Day recess – at a time when Americans were paying record prices at the pumps. Morano details that if enacted; the bill would raise gasoline prices by 50 cents per gallon. And it would mean higher energy costs for heating, cooling, and powering homes.

Morano also contends that the bill would slash manufacturing in America by 9.5 percent, and he says the bill would have amounted to the largest tax increase in American history.

The spokesman says that these days most Americans are concerned about dependency on foreign oil, and they want lawmakers to open up ANWR and other areas in the U.S. for oil exploration.

According to Morano, the bill was "so bloated" Democrats did not even want to debate it.  Source