We have gas logs in our living room–just for extra heat when we need it but with gas prices as they are we haven’t even turned them on yet.–we have a gas pack and these are just for "extra heat". would it be cheaper to change these to electric logs as I do miss the beauty of the fireplace.

It is generally cheaper to heat by gas; 1 kw of electric would produce about 3415 BTU(resistance heat), 1 therm (ft3) of gas would get 100K btu( but at 80% efficiency it is 80K). I dont know what your gas and electric rate are; you can could do the math from here !