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Sigh... and how would you like to quantify that when there are so many factors?

Obstructing traffic is not an effective means of protest. Target actual agents and entities associated with the oil industry, not the victims.

They are effective and bring about awareness among other things.

I am telling you when their trend started. Norway's consumption has not increased, it is down on 2018, as I said. It had a slight decline in 2023 (the increase between 2020 and 2022 is when people stopped driving during COVID then came back to restart its downward trend).

Japan’s decline since then is commensurate with its population decline.

Actually no, if you know what commensurate means. The population has dropped around 4% since 2008, yet oil consumption has been decreasing since 1996.

Germany is similar in terms of consumption, Sweden likewise.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-consumption-by-country

If that is the only metric you are looking it, kind of. It slumped during COVID and has looked like it's tailing off somewhat. Without tax breaks, subsidies and support for other forms of transport, say, we will not shake our dependence.

But, we can look at specific countries and see if those things have helped on a national scale, like Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018. And Sweden. And Japan. And Germany. And...

Well, there was that one guy.

I can cite many news articles which show that protesting in this way is more effective.

Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.

Well... no.