In 1911 a horse and buggy paced through Los Angeles at 11 miles per hour. In 2000, an automobile makes the rush hour trip averaging four miles per hour.
Ivan Illich sums up the effect in these startling figures: "The typical American devotes more than 1500 hours a year (which is 30 hours a week, or 4 hours a day, including Sundays) to his [or her] car. This includes the time spent behind the wheel, both in motion and stopped, the hours of work to pay for it and to pay for gas, tires, tolls, insurance, tickets, and taxes. Thus it takes this American 1500 hours to go 6000 miles (in the course of a year). Three and a half miles take him (or her) one hour. In countries that do not have a transportation industry, people travel at exactly this speed on foot, with the added advantage that they can go wherever they want and aren't restricted to asphalt roads."
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We are also against it because it would harm the operation of the existing intellectual property law. It would introduce an element of uncertainty, it would discourage investment, it would discourage innovation and the creation of new ideas, which are precisely the things that this country ought to be encouraging rather than discouraging.
Just look at Prozac for the treatment of depression.The difference between the patent product and generic product is $20.Zantac, for the treatment of reflux and ulcers - again a $20 difference, a $20 extra cost to the consumer if these generic products don't get on the market. So the stakes are high for the Australian people.