in chrysler is gaining with the ram. but no one is making a bigger move or taking a bigger chance than ford by remaking their best-selling vehicle. mark fields gave us exclusive access to the brand new f-150. reporter: about 90% of the body on this truck is made from aluminum. what is the advantage of this? it is light weight and from a consumer standpoint they will get better fuel economy. and it is more dent and ding resistant. that makes it 700 pounds
to be: i m not afraid of what somebody might think. none of the normal constraints. it s just me. i have total ability to do it the way i want to do it and to tell people what i think and if it goes wrong the first time and come back the next hour, the next day and say sorry, folks, what i meant yesterday was that the never ending opportunity to get it right, it s a never ending opportunity to i mean, nothing in it for me to lie about anything. i m not going to gain anything by lying about what i believe or lying about fact i m really trying to create the most informed educated group of citizens i can ask me what the purpose of the radio show that would be it after the business aspects which is creating and holding the largest audience possible, advertising rates, but from the consumer standpoint, informed, growing, i had
largest audience possible, from a consumer standpoint, informed, growing, intelligent, educated, participating. that s why i mentioned earlier, i find it, i think it s a great compliment that all these great media people say i m losing because obama s won two elections. i haven t run against him. i can t buy votes. and yet they put knme in that political arena to judge me, which must mean i m a bigger threat to them than they want to admit. i m flattered. because at the end of the day, i m just a guy on the radio. that s all i ever wanted to do. from age 8, was be on the radio. any down side to your job? well, down sides to everything, can you be specific? anything you hate about your job? no.
that s hard it beat. and an iphone for less than 0. you make $30 in a sense. you pay 45, and you get a $75 gift card. so from a consumer standpoint, we are doing a pretty good job this year. brad wilson, you are making me want to go home, put on my ugliest holiday sweater and venture out to find the good deals. the name of the website is brad s deals.com. he joins us from chicago. have a great holiday, by the way. thanks, martin. you too. next sun diday is expected te the busiest travel day of the year. with about 2 million joining you. the winter weather is forcing 300 flight cancellations today. that has a domino effect across
manufacturing and business. isn t it a fact that from a consumer standpoint, almost inevitably those kind of strategies lead to dramatically higher costs? not at all. because the alternative to nuclear power, which is uneconomic and can t be privately financed, has to be 100% almost 100% government loan guarantees, corporate socialism to you. the alternative is energy efficiency. that s the first platform for energy policy all over the world. we waste enormous amounts of energy, a megawatt of energy we don t waste is a megawatt of energy we don t have to produce. and that s the fastest, quickest, cheapest, most job intensive way. retrofitting buildings, homes, more efficient motors and motor vehicles, lighting, air conditioning systems. that s even before we get into biomass, wind power, solar thermal, photoboteic and others