With which one of the following statements regarding offshore platforms would the author most likely agree? A. If a reduction of human labor on offshore platform is achieved, there is no real need to eliminate platforms altogether. B. Reducing human labor on offshore platforms is desirable because researchers' knowledge about the transportation of crude is dangerously incomplete. C. The dangers involved in working on offshore platforms make their elimination a desirable goal. D. The positive-displacement pump is the better alternative for researchers, because it would allow them to eliminate platforms altogether. E. Though researchers have succeeded in reducing human labor on offshore platforms, they think that it would be inadvisable to eliminate platforms altogether, because these platforms have other uses.