Few now care about high oil imports

CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. -- Like most residents of this fast-growing bedroom community 20 miles north of Albany, N.Y., Janet Mulvey cannot do anything away from home without first hopping into one of the cars in her driveway.

To deliver her son to preschool, to buy new window shades, or pick up the dry cleaning -- not to mention doing her job as a roving children's speech therapist for adjacent Schenectady County -- Mulvey has to slide behind the wheel of her 1991 Toyota Landcruiser and negotiate the winding roads out of her housing development past all the other four- and five-bedroom homes.

And her husband, Martin, who sells extended warranty programs to car dealers, burns up even more miles in his 1994 Toyota Camry. Both carry cellular

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