You can't buy fireworks that shoot up in the air here in Kentucky.

But, if you're willing to spend money to fill up your gas tank, then you'll want to head south.

At "Hee Haw Fireworks" of Goodlettsville,TN, the "out-of-town" business is booming.

"We've had a lot of them out of Lexington and everywhere. They're coming from Kentucky and Nashville," says General Manager Tommy Tinnin.

Which has the management more than a little shocked.

"With the gas prices, we've been a little surprised but they still gotta shoot them fire crackers," adds Tinnin.

Just how far they are coming from though, might be the most shocking part.

"We came from Madison, Indiana," says customer, Corrina Hooker.

Not being able to buy large explosive fireworks like "artillery shells" and "One Bad Mother" in Indiana or Kentucky prompted Hooker and her family to travel more 3 hours and 200 miles to Goodlettsville, Tennessee for fireworks.

"I like the ones that, and my kids do too, the kinds that shoot up into the air and we don't get those in Indiana," explains Hooker.

Which means she spent almost $90 filling up the tank just to get to Tennessee.

"Oh, probably a half a tank of gas. My husband drove the whole way so I didn't have to drive," says Hooker.

Yet, she says its all worth it.

Portland, TN resident and Bowling Green Technical College graduate Krista Adams says, while she loves fireworks... the pain at the pump would keep her from traveling a great distance to buy them.

"Yeah, cause I wouldn't do it. Gas is too expensive. For $4.00 a gallon, I don't think I'd drive there just for fireworks," says Adams.

The staff at "Hee Haw" says its the holiday tradition that trumps high gas prices.

"Even with thing in the economy with the gas prices, they're still gonna look forward to shooting their fireworks cause its such a tradition of Independence Day," says Terri Burd of "Hee Haw" Fireworks.

One store worker said they recently had a customer come in from as far away as Oregon.

A lot of these more explosive fireworks aren't sold here in Kentucky.