Gas station owner Ramesh Badlani says he can charge what ever he wants for a gallon of gas and if people don't like it, they can go somewhere else.
Badlani's Chevron is located on LeJeune Road across from Miami International Airport.
His price for a gallon of regular on Monday was $4.39, 83 cents higher than the national average and the highest Local 10 found in Miami-Dade County.
"We pay higher taxes. If the government rips me off what do you want me to do pay from my pocket?" he said.
Badlani claims his taxes doubled two years ago.
While he thinks the price is justified, his customers don't.
"Would you be surprissed if I told you this is like the highest in all of Miami-Dade County?" Local 10's Jeff Weinsier asked a customer at the gas station.
"This gas station? I wish you would have told me before I was pumping the gas so I could have gone to another one," Humberto Diplan replied.
"$4.39 is outrageous, but it's next to the airport," said Amy Vercillo, a visitor from Boston who was filling up her rental car.
While Badlani says his prices are higher because his taxes are higher, according to property records, he paid $18,678.00 in property taxes in 2011.
But Local 10 found a Chevron Gas Station just three miles away from his that charges customer .66 cents less a gallon.
The owner of the Chevron with the lower price pays more in property taxes, according to records.
Local 10 may have found the real reason for the higher prices at Badlani's location.
Is he targeting tourists?
"Do you think you lose business because your prices are so high?" Weinsier asked.
"Not really. We get tourists here so it doesn't matter," Badlani said.