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William Taggart
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Engineer working on long duration energy storage and author of “Fixing America - An engineer’s solution to our social, cultural, and political problems“. Texas Forward Party
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William Taggart @williamtaggart.org · Nov 17
Introduction- 58 year old engineer. Spent 32 years building America’s infrastructure mainly in oil/gas. Left in late 2020 and started working on long duration energy storage and also researching and writing a book - “Fixing America” 4.8⭐️ on Goodreads.
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Fixing America Book | Website of William M. Taggart IV
Discover 'Fixing America,' a groundbreaking work that melds decades of engineering expertise with a fresh take on American politics. Learn about Taggart's innovative solutions and visionary ideas aime...
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New favorite drink for decorating the Christmas Tree, egg nog, ground nutmeg, and Bayou Rum satsuma.
#Christmas
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Time to build the bikes for CycleHouston.
An excellent charity dedicated to providing bikes to 2nd graders to encourage reading.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Want to let everyone know, "Fixing America" is now available as an audiobook. And yes it finally took me till now to get around to making an audiobook, I do apologize for the delay.

It's available through Apple Books and many others.
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Fixing America: An Engineer’s Solution to our Social, Cultural, and Political Problems
Have you been wondering about the big issues dominating the news? Is climate change a massive threat or not? What is really going on with immigration? More importantly, how did American politics becom...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Seen some misinformation flying around with people trying to blame wind and solar for the blackouts in ERCOT due to Winter storm Uri in February 2021. Want to know the truth? Please read the Substack link below. #ERCOT
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Debunking Winter Storm Uri
A person responded to a post on LinkedIn about battery and solar growth in ERCOT and I just couldn't let the misinformation pass by without a response.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Can you see the marketing meeting?

"Guys, with meat prices so high, let's make a meat flavored chip!!"

And the shame is they all thought it was a good idea.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 13d
Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!
A tube of Pringles in “Philly cheesesteak“ flavor and a bag of Doritos in ” garlic steak flavor“
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Live in Texas? Concerned about your electricity prices? Well I’ve looked at the October ERCOT data both generation and pricing and have an analysis for you to read.
#ERCOT

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ERCOT in October
The latest data for the ERCOT electrical grid in Texas has been released for October 2025 and here is the analysis.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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To all the people pointing to the higher US oil production numbers and thinking we don’t have a problem, a word please. #peakoil

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Consulting the Magic 8-ball for Oil Production
US Oil Output is increasing, so what happened to the plateau people were talking about?
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November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Wait a minute - they are tearing down the East Wing and doing it with big construction equipment and no one is checking for historical artifacts or anything?
Why does this feel like a bad idea?
#WhiteHouse
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 21
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I met with a man who read my book. He liked it, but called it naïve and aspirational. Said the ideas were nice, but impossible to do in the midst of partisan strife. But isn’t that the point. Our goals should be aspirations of the world we want our children to inherit.
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Fixing America Book | Website of William M. Taggart IV
Discover 'Fixing America,' a groundbreaking work that melds decades of engineering expertise with a fresh take on American politics. Learn about Taggart's innovative solutions and visionary ideas aime...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Everyone is praising how solar and batteries have made the Texas ERCOT grid more stable, but there are storms on the horizon and people need to understand what really happened this year. #ERCOT

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The Storage Conundrum
A needed change for the Texas ERCOT Market
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September 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social - Could you take a look at this and also can you recommend anything on history of 1970s. I'm looking for the links between the 1970s energy crisis and the social and political turmoil of the times.
williamtaggart.org William Taggart @williamtaggart.org · Sep 15
The Energy Information Agency of the Department of Energy is now showing that US Domestic Oil production will peak next year. Curious as to why and why it matters? #PeakOil
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The Mechanics of Peak Oil
Why the concept of peak oil is important right now.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The Energy Information Agency of the Department of Energy is now showing that US Domestic Oil production will peak next year. Curious as to why and why it matters? #PeakOil
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The Mechanics of Peak Oil
Why the concept of peak oil is important right now.
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September 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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This is a lie. Because that isn’t how parties work in Texas. If you vote in the Democratic Primary then you are a Democrat. If you vote in a Republican primary you’re a Republican. There is no such thing as registered Democrats. Democratic Primary was 982,069. Republican primary was 2,323,019.
August 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Here is the second part of what’s in the One Big Beautiful Bill? Please read my substack where I break down what is inside.
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Analyzing the One Big Beautiful Bill - Part 2
The 2nd part of the analysis of the OBBB. And if you thought the first part was confusing, saddle up the second half is worse.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I spoke at the Public Utility Commission of Texas open meeting on July 31st, 2025 about the need for energy storage. Click on the link to see what I said and why the ERCOT market needs to change.
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Energy Storage for ERCOT
I spoke at the Public Utility Commission of Texas about the need for energy storage.
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August 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Working through the One Big Beautiful Bill and need some tax pros to help me make sense of this passage. Page 424, Section 70425 - "Paragraph (1) of section 170(b) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
🧵1 #taxpros
July 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Want a neutral opinion of what’s in the One Big Beautiful Bill? Please read my substack where in this first post on the OBBB I break down what is inside. #OBBB
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Analyzing the One Big Beautiful Bill - Part One
It's 870 pages of legislative legalese, so this is going to take a couple posts to get through, and it ain't pretty.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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@timmiller.bsky.social - Looking for data on the Texas redistricting here is some for you.
williamtaggart.org William Taggart @williamtaggart.org · Jul 16
With a Texas special session and redistricting on the agenda, it's a good time to repost this on gerrymandering. My view - Texas is so gerrymandered already, more districts is impossible, and trying could open the door to independent moderates. @fwdparty.bsky.social @texasforwardparty.bsky.social
williamtaggart.org William Taggart @williamtaggart.org · Jun 11
Do you think politicians should choose their voters? The questions around gerrymandering are looked at in the attached article.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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With a Texas special session and redistricting on the agenda, it's a good time to repost this on gerrymandering. My view - Texas is so gerrymandered already, more districts is impossible, and trying could open the door to independent moderates. @fwdparty.bsky.social @texasforwardparty.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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So, in the process of doing an analysis of the OBBB and for SNAP, the bill raised the age when the work requirement stopped from 50 yrs old to 65 yrs old and changed the exception for a parent of a dependent child, to a child under 14 years of age.
@repcasar.bsky.social that affects 20,000?
repcasar.bsky.social Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · Jul 13
SNAP provides $2 a meal for kids, working people, and seniors.

Over 20,000 Texans in my district could lose their SNAP benefits because of Trump’s budget bill.

Trump and Republicans are giving tax cuts to billionaires by stealing food from the hungry.
July 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The original post has been updated based on comments from readers. But the core analysis still holds true, the Washington Post overstated the risks to the Black community about police shootings. @washingtonpost.com
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The Washington Post is wrong.
In their police shootings database the Post claims that Black Americans are killed by police over twice as much as White Americans, but their analysis makes a fundamental mistake.
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July 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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July 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The Washington Post made a claim about police killings and I think they got it wrong.

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The Washington Post is wrong.
In their police shootings database the Post claims that Black Americans are killed by police over twice as much as White Americans, but their analysis makes a fundamental mistake.
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July 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Wonder why you haven't heard any more "drill, baby, drill". It's because the Oil & Gas people are now talking shale plateau followed by decline.
Not sure what is going on? Look up Hubbert's Peak on Wikipedia, we have been here before.
July 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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In an effort to stick to the facts -
Registered Voters in New York City - 4,741,026
Registered Democratic Voters in NYC - 3,081,389 65%
Democratic Voters in Primary Election- 993,546 21%
Votes for Zohran Mamdani - 432,305 9.1%

So, less than 10% of the voters in NYC are causing this panic.🤦 #NYC
June 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM