Which of the following was the result in Thrifty Rent-A-Car System v. South Florida Transport, the case in the text in which in response to a claim for amounts due on a franchise agreement involving the rental of vehicles, the defendant claimed that hurricanes had rendered its rental car business commercially impracticable?
A) That a jury question existed as to whether the hurricanes made the business commercially impracticable.
B) That as a matter of law, the defense of commercial impracticability was unavailable to the defendant for reasons including that the absence of hurricanes was not a basic assumption of the agreement.
C) That as a matter of law, the defense of commercial impracticability was available to the defendant because the defendant established that it was current on its payments until the advent of the hurricane season.
D) That as a matter of law, the defense of commercial impracticability was available to the defendant because the defendant established that the hurricanes made the cost of performance of the terms of the agreement unduly burdensome.
E) That as a matter of law, the defense of commercial impracticability was available to the defendant because the plaintiff failed to establish that the defendant had been given sufficient opportunity to recover from its business interruption due to several hurricanes.
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