Positive global news concerning crude oil and unease in Israel has local Baltimore-area motorists hoping rising gas prices will begin to fall in coming weeks.

A cease-fire involving the militant group Hezbollah and Israel, as well as BP announcing that it could pump more oil at its troubled Alaska pipeline than earlier anticipated, helped send oil prices lower in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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