diwolf, at first I had the same problem, then I realized that in order to spend points you click on the arrows on the top and bottom of each card. Hope that helps =)
Pato, when people are afraid they pay more taxes. However fear will also cause operation costs to rise so it is only advantageous to solicit fear when no operations are going on.
At least that's what I figured out.
very fun and pretty game, wish there was more to it!!! and i dont really see why no reverse is so bad, if you got so messed up that you needed it, you might as well just restart as each race is less than a minute...