HEADING TODAY'S ENERGY NEWS CLIPS IS THIS STATISTIC -- CONCERNING TO ALASKANS, UPLIFTING TO NORTH DAKOTANS AND RAILROAD INVESTOR WARREN BUFFETT: U.S. moves more oil out of North Dakota by rail than the Trans-Alaskan pipeline.Scientific American. Currently, half of all oil coming out of the Bakken shale is transported by railroad (more than the third by pipelines). In its Draft Assessment of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the U.S. State Department estimates that by the end of this year 800,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil will be carried out of the Bakken on rail [...]