[EggsAckley]

They're threatening that in my county too. A friend just bought a house with a "fake" fireplace, little gas jets. Very environmentally correct. But when the power went off overnight she just about froze to death.

They'll take my firewood away.........from my cold dead fingers!!

[Phantom Lord]

Down here in NC don't need a "real" fireplace for heat. I do have a "fake" fireplace, gas. Nice thing about it, flip a switch to turn it on and off! Plus no log pile, no spliting wood, and no clean up!

[nothingnew]

They'll take my firewood away.........from my cold dead fingers!!

Beat me to it Eggs...I dare anyone to come to my home and tell me I can't use my woodstove...(7,000 ft up in the Rockies), they wood (intended) not last a second breath.....Burn, baby, burn...

FMCDH

[blackdog]

Translation= If you have an existing fireplace in your home, it's value just increased by 25%.

I would use a bubba on this one. Could you define "log" for me please? I will burn machined linear lengths of dried cellulose. I would never burn wooden logs.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Brother could ya spare a cord?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"They'll take my firewood away.........from my cold dead fingers!! "

Out here in the woods of New England, cutting and splitting a cord or two for the Winter is actually a certified exercise program!

[Wonder Warthog]

"They're threatening that in my county too. A friend just bought a house with a "fake" fireplace, little gas jets. Very environmentally correct. But when the power went off overnight she just about froze to death."

Must be a bad design. I've got a gas-log fireplace, and I can pretty much heat the entire house with it if the electricity (and electric furnace) go off (which happens frequently in this neck of the woods in the winter).