Any way you want, no one is taking out 'no end' of wood burners and replacing them with gas fires.
Non sequitur. If dcawkwell installs gas fires, he might spend all his working hours installing gas fires, and removing whatever appliance was in the opening. It does not follow that wood burners are being ripped out wholesale.
Especially as they're mostly installed in non-gas areas. Most built up areas are in smoke controlled zones where only exempt wood burners are allowed. Or is it someone goes to the trouble of buying and fitting an exempt stove to have it replaced by a gas fire?
Are they? Really? So the areas on the mains gas, which would include most urban built-up areas, have fewer wood burners per square mile than non-gas rural areas with standing timber? Despite the former having a population density of say 5,000 per squ. kilometre?
That is unbelieveable.
You have overlooked the fact that wood (and paper, rags, garden waste, rubbish) is burned on non-exempt appliances and that there are still a lot of solid fuel appliances that were intended to burn coal in use, burning wood, or abandoned in place and not used.
PS. You're only hammering the understanding bit 'cos you ****** up by thinking I was the OP.
See above where you said dcawkwell and I were lying.
He's giving his opinion based on, as he states, the number of log burners he takes out and replaces with gas fires. I've heard that view elsewhere.
I doubt it.