>>I'm sure I remember seeing a report of a California family who had their air con full blast in the summer so they could have a real fire going without getting to hot. That must count as a fake fire
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>Cool idea. {g} Will apply it this august in Cyprus :))
>Since I do not have real fireplace, video tape of fake fake fireplace will have to do the trick.
>Hope my aircon does not go on (real) fire under intense pressure ;-)

In the US you can buy a gas log. Actually, two kinds of it. The first kind is a piece of fake wood, with a gas (the gaseous gas, not the gasoline gas kind) pipe sort of hidden, and you put that in your fireplace and while the fire is real, the burning wood is just an illusion. It's fueled by gas.

The other kind is what you can buy in any office supplies store. If you are using your vehicle for business, you can't get a refund unless you keep a log of it, and it includes logging the gas, so there's such a notebook with preprinted entry forms on every page.