Stop guzzling, stop griping and start saving before prices go past $2.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Jay Henning hears the griping and grousing about gasoline prices crawling toward the $2-a-gallon mark and, frankly, he's tired of it.

Drivers can reform their gas-guzzling ways. But they don't.

Henning works in a studio near Corinth Square Shopping Center in Prairie Village, where he has watched folks drive from the Hen House at one end to the dry cleaners at the other _ a short walk away.

"I'm just stunned that they do that without thinking," he said.

His biggest peeve, though, is drivers who sit in line at McDonald's, windows rolled up, air-conditioning blasting, engines idling for minutes on end. To save on gas, and because it's often quicker, Henning won't use drive-throughs anymore, not even for the ATM.

"We're all free to do as we choose, so why not choose to pick up some techniques like that, rather than sit there and complain at the pump every time they gas up their car?" Henning said.

Thanks to his gas-saving system, Henning needs to fill up his `97 Jeep Wrangler only every other week.