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Fixing America is now available at Amazon and many other sites. Brazos Bookstore and Blue Willow Bookstore in Houston have copies on their shelves as well as The Twig in San Antonio.

If you would like a free Kindle eBook, we have a giveaway running with GoodReads until the end of the month.
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Fixing America: An Engineer’s Solution to our Social, Cultural, and Political Problems by William M. Taggart | Goodreads

Read 2 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. "A timely, level-headed analysis of America's most polarizing political issues." - Kirkus Re…

01:16 PM - Feb 04, 2024
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Time to start thinking about the Permian and how energy policy needs to be based on what we think will happen in ten years. #FixingAmerica #americanpolitics #energystorage #ERCOT #energypolicy #americandemocracy #renewables #naturalgas #txlege
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US Shale Production Revisited - by William Taggart IV

Or why the Permian is scaring me.

06:01 PM - May 01, 2024
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Austin Texas - An author's appearance with Texas Forward Party. If you want to come out and discuss reasonable, data driven solutions to our problems, please join us on Thursday, May 9th 4:30-6:30 at Scholz Garten 1607 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78701
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05:59 PM - May 01, 2024
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Let’s understand something about our political disfunction, it didn’t happen yesterday and Trump is the symptom not the cause. We are living in a time when the bad decisions of the last sixty years are coming due. Want to know more? Fixingamericathebook.com
11:11 AM - Mar 24, 2024
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Reminder - If you live in Houston, signing books and discussing politics at Brazos Bookstore - 2421 Bissonet Street - 6:30 pm Friday.
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Live in Houston? Want to talk moderate politics? I will be discussing my book Fixing America at Brazos Bookstore on March 22nd. Come by and participate in an open, polite discussion of issues. #bookspoutible
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A lot of discussions about why rural America has become the Republican bastion, here is the Chapter from "Fixing America" that looks at the issue.
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Fixing America - Chapter 43 - Small Town America's Main Street

Here is the chapter on rural America from my book Fixing America. Why rural towns vote Republican. Moderate political analysis of small town America.

08:46 PM - Mar 07, 2024
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Live in Houston? Want to talk moderate politics? I will be discussing my book Fixing America at Brazos Bookstore on March 22nd. Come by and participate in an open, polite discussion of issues. #bookspoutible
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06:41 PM - Mar 07, 2024
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A new review for “Fixing America”, this time from BookTrib- “Buy this Book!”

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Top Engineer Assesses the Damage of American Politics, Economics and Society — & How to Fix It | BookTrib.

It does not take a rocket scientist to see the current slow-motion breakdown in American politics, economics and society. But it just might take an engineer to assess the damage and data, propose solutions and show why open debate and dialogue are the real keys to making America great (again, or oth..

04:51 PM - Feb 28, 2024
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Respouting this after the uncommitted vote in the democratic primary in Minnesota.
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Your vote is a chess move, treat it accordingly. #americandemocracy #FixingAmerica #americanpolitics

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Your vote is a chess move, treat it accordingly.

As we head into the November we need to understand the consequences of choosing the least worse of two major candidates.

01:38 PM - Feb 26, 2024
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So my first author appearance is at the Twig in San Antonio tomorrow night from 5:30 pm to 7 pm. If you are attending the Subsea Tieback Conference and are in the vicinity of Hotel Emma, the Twig is at 306 Pearl Parkway Suite 106 in San Antonio.
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02:18 PM - Feb 26, 2024
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Your vote is a chess move, treat it accordingly. #americandemocracy #FixingAmerica #americanpolitics

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Your vote is a chess move, treat it accordingly.

As we head into the November we need to understand the consequences of choosing the least worse of two major candidates.

01:38 PM - Feb 26, 2024
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What if you could transfer some of your earnings to a place with zero income tax. Sound impossible, not to the big tech companies. #taxpolicy #fixingamerica

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02:53 PM - Feb 08, 2024
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The White House announcement of a pause in LNG approval has set off accusations. So how about we dig into what is really going on. #energypolicy #fixingamerica

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The Biden LNG Decision - by William Taggart IV

The Left spins this as a decision based on climate change, the right spins it as government overreach, but which is it.

06:48 PM - Feb 04, 2024
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Fixing America is now available at Amazon and many other sites. Brazos Bookstore and Blue Willow Bookstore in Houston have copies on their shelves as well as The Twig in San Antonio.

If you would like a free Kindle eBook, we have a giveaway running with GoodReads until the end of the month.
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Fixing America: An Engineer’s Solution to our Social, Cultural, and Political Problems by William M. Taggart | Goodreads

Read 2 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. "A timely, level-headed analysis of America's most polarizing political issues." - Kirkus Re…

01:16 PM - Feb 04, 2024
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Can I get a little help here???? Just click on the link in the post below, it will take you to the review of my book, and then click on "Upvote". That's it.
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Fixing America - An Engineer’s Solution to our Social, Cultural, and Political Problems by William Taggart - Reviewed by Melonie Kennedy | Reedsy Discovery

Review: Scholarly work with interesting perspectives on the issues faced in the United States today, with plenty of statistics to dig into.

04:17 PM - Feb 01, 2024
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"Fixing America" just got it's second major review and I need your help.

You can read it and importantly UP Vote for it. So please help an engineer out.
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Fixing America - An Engineer’s Solution to our Social, Cultural, and Political Problems by William Taggart - Reviewed by Melonie Kennedy | Reedsy Discovery

Review: Scholarly work with interesting perspectives on the issues faced in the United States today, with plenty of statistics to dig into.

11:41 AM - Jan 30, 2024
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7 days until "Fixing America" is available. You can preorder now at my website, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.

“A timely, level-headed analysis of America’s most polarizing political issues.” – Kirkus Reviews #book -reviews
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FIXING AMERICA | Kirkus Reviews

An engineer surveys America’s political landscape in this debut nonfiction book.

04:20 PM - Jan 23, 2024
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The Kirkus Review for Fixing America just came out and the verdict is …. “Get It ☑️” 🥳👍🏼 #booklovers #BookReview #nonfiction
Release date is January 30th https://www.kirkusreviews....
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FIXING AMERICA | Kirkus Reviews

An engineer surveys America’s political landscape in this debut nonfiction book.

03:48 PM - Jan 16, 2024
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If we are going to discuss climate change, we need to discuss population levels and how they have increased in the last 60 years. #FixingAmerica #ClimateChange
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Let's talk about population - by William Taggart IV

While everyone is focused on a tug of war over climate change, we seem to be overlooking the massive growth in human population that is at the core of the issue.

03:31 PM - Jan 15, 2024
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My book Fixing America will be released on January 30th. The website is up and you can see sample chapters and the supporting data files. FixingAmericaTheBook.com
I’ll make an announcement when the pre-order buttons are an available.
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08:14 PM - Jan 03, 2024 (Edited)
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If we are going to discuss climate change, we need to discuss rampant consumerism and the shoddy products that drive part of it.
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Of kettles and fuses and buying American

Manufacturers are building obsolescence into their products and it has serious implications on the future

01:52 PM - Jan 01, 2024
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Energy policy needs to be based on what we think will happen in ten years and what technology we have on hand now. Instead we are ignoring the dependence on seven major shale fields and hoping that hydrogen and carbon capture work.
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US dependence on seven major shale fields

People don't seem to realize how dependent we are on the big shale fields and how there is not a plan B when these fields go into decline.

12:16 PM - Dec 28, 2023
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So what would the Texas ERCOT grid look like without natural gas or coal. See my Substack post for a simple simulation to figure out what that non-hydrocarbon grid would look like.
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A year without hydrocarbons - by William Taggart IV

So what would the Texas ERCOT grid look like if we didn't have natural gas and coal?

06:59 PM - Nov 27, 2023
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Progressives claim wind/solar are cheap forms of electricity and conservatives say they are making the grid unreliable, and both are right. If you would like to understand how both views can be true, please read the attached substack.

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Solar & Wind's impact on electric price volatility

People have been telling us to add wind and solar to the grid to address climate change, but they forgot to tell us to add storage to address intermittency and changing consumer demand.

01:38 PM - Nov 16, 2023
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There is a lot of talk about Direct Air Capture and a lot of people are investing in it, but does it really make things better or is a lot of hype.
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Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide

Hope versus Engineering - the classic question of realistic expectations

03:13 PM - Nov 12, 2023
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Reserve numbers for oil and natural gas is an area where people can be misled. Please see the Substack link below for an explanation how we can have people claiming we have 80 years of potential, but less than 20 years of proven supply.
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Proven, Probable, and Possible - by William Taggart IV

Explaining the vast difference in oil and natural gas reserve numbers being thrown around.

11:42 AM - Nov 06, 2023
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Want to balance the budget through spending cuts, let’s talk about where those cuts can be made and how much they would actually do. #FixingAmerica #americanpolitics
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Let's play the "Balance the Budget" Game!!

There are a lot of calls to cut spending to balance the budget, but no one ever works the numbers to understand what that really entails, here are the numbers

11:25 AM - Oct 30, 2023
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Please see a new post on why I am working on energy storage and why that is something you need to know about. #FixingAmerica #energystorage #ERCOT #energypolicy #naturalgas #txlege
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My bias towards Energy Storage - by William Taggart IV

Time to be honest, I am actively working to try and get more energy storage for Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi and that makes me biased.

11:23 AM - Sep 18, 2023
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A new Substack piece on a better way to vote. #FixingAmerica #americanpolitics #politicalunity #democracyincrisis #democracyrevival #politicalreform #americandemocracy #RankedChoiceVoting

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Ranked Choice Voting - by William Taggart IV

In the background of the Republican vs Democrat clash that draws all the headlines, is a quiet battle over changing how we vote.

04:40 PM - Sep 10, 2023
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@cbouzy - is there a way to flag false information. The far right and far left are both twisting and in this case outright lying about things.
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Where are you getting $26 from??? The $1.00 it was in 1960 calculates to $10.33 today. This claim of $26 appears to be false.
10:39 AM - Sep 04, 2023
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Revised - The natural gas storage drop in the South-Central region is now over 100 BCF, breaking all past years. If this isn't a warning about depending on natural gas for primary electricity I don
t know what is.
#energypolicy #FixingAmerica #ERCOT
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My latest, documenting the drop in natural gas storage for the South Central Region and what it means towards our long term energy policy for ERCOT.
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Texas Energy Policy - by William Taggart

Welcome to the summer doldrums where natural gas storage levels fall as power plants generate electricity to keep our air conditioners running.

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